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Oct 2021
Harrogate hospital records another covid death
Harrogate District Hospital has reported a death from a patient who tested positive for coronavirus. It takes the death toll at the hospital from covid to 189 since March 2020.
Harrogate District Hospital.
Harrogate District Hospital has reported another covid death, according to latest NHS England figures.
It takes the death toll at the hospital from covid since March 2020 to 189.
According to NHS figures, the death was reported on September 30.
The number of patients in Harrogate hospital being treated for covid stands at 10.
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Meanwhile, the Harrogate district has reported 130 daily covid cases according to today's Public Health England figures.
The district’s seven-day covid rate has also fallen to 549 per 100,000 people.
The North Yorkshire average is 445 and the England rate stands at 333.
Speaking last week, Louise Wallace, director of public health for North Yorkshire, said the rise in infections across the county was being “driven by school-age children”.
She said:
“From what we can in the terms of the age bandings from the most recent cases, they do seem to be coming from school children and young people."
Elsewhere, 128,252 people have received a first covid vaccine in the Harrogate district and 120,590 have had a second dose.
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